Used Book in Good ConditionProduct DescriptionFrom the?New York Times?bestselling?author of?Tinker?? Tailor?? Soldier?? Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; and?The Night Manager?? now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston.?John le Carr???s new novel?? A Legacy of Spies???will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.
The 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling novel that launched John le Carr???s career worldwide
In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall?? Alec Le"es as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas?? the head of Berlin Station?? the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse?a desk job?Control offers him a unique opportunity for revenge. Assuming the guise of an embittered and dissolute ex-agent?? Leamas is set up to trap Mundt?? the deputy director of the East German Intelligence Service?with himself as the bait. In the background is George Smiley?? ready to make the game play out just as Control wants.
Setting a standard that has never been surpassed?? The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a devastating tale of duplicity and espionage.Amazon.com ReviewIt would be an international crime to reveal too much of the jeweled clockwork plot of Le Carr?'s first masterpiece?? The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. But we are at liberty to disclose that Graham Greene called it the "spy story ever written??"and that the taut tale concerns Alec Leamas?? a British agent in early Cold War Berlin. Leamas is responsible for keeping the double agents under his care undercover and alive?? but East Germans start killing them?? so he gets called back to London by Control?? his spy master. Yet instead of giving Leamas the boot?? Control gives him a scary assignment: play the part of a disgraced agent?? a sodden failure everybody whispers about. Control sends him back out into the cold--deep into Communist territory to checkmate the bad-guy spies